Klarinet Archive - Posting 000632.txt from 2001/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Audience participation
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:53:34 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Leupold [mailto:leupold_1@-----.com]
> <large snip> I think the cause still rests
> primarily with
> a waning education of the masses. American society in particular
> is being
> less and less acculturated -- with the passage of time -- to
> understand, much
> less appreciate, classical music and the arts. Acculturation, in
> one of its
> secondary definitions, pertains to the process by which the
> culture of a par-
> ticular society is instilled in a human being from infancy
> onward.
>

This has always intrigued me as an American interested primarily (though not
exclusively) in "classical" music. When in the U.S. has "classical" music
ever been other than an elite, essentially European art form? When has it
ever qualified as a genuinely traditional part of the general American
culture?

This is for me a real question - not an argument with Neil's post.

Karl Krelove

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